Real Life Crusher in the making

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by DeMarcohsp: 24.03.2013 22:07.

Hey people,

Some of you might know me as I've been a member of pokerstrategy for a few years. You find more things non poker related in my old blog .

For a few weeks I commited to poker and decided to give it my best shot. For this I wake up every day at 6 am and study poker for at least a couple of hours and decided to play at least 50 k hands / month.

I'm playing NL 50 sh atm, trying to improve and get to higher limits. Target is to beat NL 400/600 for a good 5bb/100 as soon as possible. Winning @ NL 200 by the end of the year would be a good progress for me.

Mr Leakbuster by position:

And a graph of recent weeks:

I'm here to improve and try my best to help others. Meet you at the top!

Your W$SD is lower than 50%, and your WTSD is also low.
This is surprising - it means you are rarely getting to showdown and yet still often have the worst hand.

I'm not sure what the reason for this is, so let me ask you some questions:
1. Do you often find yourself bluffing with low equity into a strong range to "rep the nuts". Are you confident when you should or should not be bluffing?
2. Do you often find yourself calling the river with a hand just because you have top/middle pair without thinking about villain's range?
3. Do you always fastplay your strong hands, but call/float with your weaker ones?

-I check that I have all distractions turned off (phone/skype)
-I review recent notes/ theory studied
-I check my emotional state and take a few deep breaths
-I start by playing fewer tables and don't add until I don't fell sharp.

Cool down

-I give myself ratings in some performance markers: Tilt control, Focus, Improvement etc
-I write down anything that bugged me during session, leaks that I discovered, what went well, what went wrong, anything else that I consider relevant
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It is beneficial because you keep an honest evaluation of your play and also you keep track of how different things affect your game --> helps you spot leaks.

1) When would 3betting be better pre?
I don't really find a scenario. If villain would be super aggro I think we would still find higher EV by flatting and letting him spew.

Vs regs this is standard imo.

when someone opens a lot and folds very little vs 3bets we can easily add that into our 3bet range but yea here regs don't open that much so flatting is more EV.

2)When is checking better on the flop
When villain is aggro villain either spewy or overplaying type. Also good vs regs with high cbet.

This guy is cbetting 75%, it's definitely an easy check vs him.

3) When to donk flop ?
Vs stations
Vs weak/tight

4) What if villain cbets polarized ?

I would go for x/c unless he has like 30% cbet as his range will be bluff heavy with any decent cbet freq.
After he checks back I would fire T 100% for value

5) What if villain cbets depolarized ?
Against any decent cbet freq > 50% I am big favorite. If villain is super stationy I could probably go for a x/r for value
After he checks back flop fire T 100%

6) What if villain folds a lot vs donks?
My play is still good if he does not cbet a good amount because he will get a free card most of the time when I check.

7) What if villain barrels decent freq and has good stats overall?

ATo is not for from the top of my range, I only have here AJ(9), A9s(2), J9s(3) for better combos. So, on blanks I would call vs balanced opponent

Let's go to the turn

8) What if turn is Q or K ?

It improves his range. Easy play I think is to x/c on Ks Qs and bet/fold the rest.

With regards to donking, when your range is consisted of bluff catchers and has no nutted hands it doesn't make sense at all to split your range. Reading your post I'm getting that you would lead all of your strong + some bluffs I'm assuming, but then your checking range becomes way too weak so even when this guy is not cbetting a lot I'm not a huge fan of having a donking range.

Where as on a flop of 987 for example, you have all the nut hands TJ,99,88,77 etc. And if he is not cbetting a lot it could make sense to split range into donks+x/r+x/c while not making the other range too weak.

Originally posted by mbml
For AT hand 3bet is much better IMO. Our AT is ahead of his 40% range and he is hardly folding. Kq and AJ would be clear 3bets for value, AT is kind of close but i still prefer it.

And definitely checking flop like server mentioned. Only lead when u have reason to believe that pfr is not gonna bet very often.

If u want to play AT so hard here i think its pretty clear that u should 3b though.

If we are 3betting AT, we would 3betting like 8% for value+8% as a bluff, I'm not a fan of this at all when he is not opening "that wide". Think it only makes sense to include AT vs like 75%+ open. Otherwise the ev of calling is def better imo given that AT doesnt even play that great in 3bet pots.

I think this hand is played well vs aggro spewy opponents. This is why I chose the small sizing so that i can give him room to spew.

2) When would you not call the 3bet pre ?

I think my default here is to call the m3bet
vs stations with low 3bet we have very good implied odds
vs maniacs it might be better to 4bet it if they have something like 15% 3bet and stack off on non Ace boards. ???

3) What is the plan postflop?

Vs this opponent my plan is to call down light on non Ax boards with no more than 1 broadway on the board.

This particular flop is one of the best we could get imo.

Again since this guy has 14 F4bet, I think 4betting it pre in order to have lower SPR might be better.

Vs stations I'm set mining.

4 What if villain is not cbetting much?

I would lead all non Ax flops with 1 broadway at most on it. Vs his wide 3betting range my hand is doing well on these.

With 47 cbet in 3bp I should've donked this one

5 What if villain in 3barrel happy ?

With 80%+ flop and 60% on T and R I am calling all non Ax cards.

New one for your enjoyment.

Also watched the first seminar on UTG 2day, great great content. felt much more confident in my decisions
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